Vegetable Growing Basics 2026 Welcome to Vegetable Growing Basics!  Zoom link for all four classes plus the Q&A: https://umn.zoom.us/j/99746920091 Whether you're a novice vegetable gardener or a more experienced gardener looking f...

A fun thing I help organize as a volunteer... Twin Cities folks, join us!

Learn how to plan, plant, & maintain a veggie garden with a FREE online 4-class series taught by U of M Master Gardener volunteers in Hennepin County. Beginners welcome!

Class dates & sign-up: z.umn.edu/VGB2026.

Lego minifigures out on the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis protesting the ICE occupation of Minnesota.

For my Lego friends. If you want your own and also get to support a cause, Dan @ Brickmania has these available. (Well not all of these, just the torsos and signs)
www.brickmania.com/benefit-bric...

This is a perfect analogy.

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

Thank you, city of my childhood and teenage years, for standing with the city of my adult years.

My anger at having to stand outside my kid’s school for two hours to ensure none of their classmates, parents, or teachers get kidnapped by my own government is only slightly tempered by the amazing outpouring of support from other parents and especially neighbors who stand against this bullshit.

Good Frog and Toad Bot post for today

Live updates: Officials confirm ICE-involved shooting in south Minneapolis Witnesses reported a person was shot in south Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, amid a large presence of federal law enforcement officers. It was not immediately clear who may have been shot, or who m...

Eyewitness account-
“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,”

A drawing of a person with darker olive-brown skin wearing a puffy winter jacket and a long winter scarf standing in front of a snowy background. They are wearing a long winter scarf that sways in the breeze and says MINNESOTA in bold letters. They are holding a tater tot hot dish with the tater tots arranged to spell out NoICE. They are also wearing a whistle on a lanyard and a button that says WE KEEP US SAFE.

It’s not Minnesota Nice anymore, it’s Minnesota NoICE!

Art by me, please share, thx <3

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

Drone photo of a crowd of thousands of anti-ICE protesters stretching into the distance on Lake Street. There's no end to the crowd in the photo.

It's Day 19 of the ICE occupation of MSP.

Today thousands of Minnesotans poured onto Lake Street to rally in support of our immigrant neighbors and against ICE.

Take a moment to look at this crowd of you and your neighbors rallying in below zero windchill.

📸 @roblevine82.bsky.social

Not me. I’ll read the transcript tomorrow in 5 minutes and that’s more time than it deserves from me.

📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:

1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)

2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

My feed, knowing that I like nature and flowers, is helpfully giving me AI-generated nature and flowers that are gross and horrible and deeply offensive. I mean, not as offensive as fake ICE videos, but still, whhhhhy when real nature is already so breathtaking.

That is the most Minnesotan response ever.

Love this place for plants, and also lots of great gifts if you’re looking for a local spot for your holiday shopping this year! Also REALLY nice amaryllis bulbs that don’t disappoint you like the ones at the big box stores.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

This is why I’m on BlueSky: typography humor

Love this shot! ❤️

Paying both the cow and cat taxes in one photo: these are our fosters, Buddy and Brava

I know, right? The whole thing totally cracked me up.

I had hip replacement surgery and apparently the guy just before me was officially surgery #25,000 so he got streamers on the door to his room, social media promotions, balloons, candy. All I got was this lousy photo. 😂

Very valid way of getting through writer’s block

So Twin Cities Orthopedics reached a milestone today: 25,000 surgeries. They had a big celebration in the lobby of the recovery facility with Surgery #25,000 Dude, the surgeon, social media photos… balloons and photos and candy.

Guess who was surgery #25,001. 😂

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

I have tasted
the sandwich
that was lobbed
at my bulletproof vest

and which
you probably spent
your hard-earned
money on

forgive me
it smelled delicious
so onion-y
so mustard-y

Kyiv.
Why do I show you its beauty
when others focus on destruction?

I show you resilience.
Strength.
I don’t want your pity –
I want you to feel proud of us.

What a lucky boi ❤️❤️